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New Zealand Passes Harmful Digital Communications Act – Tim Sissons
The New Zealand Harmful Digital Communications Act received Royal Assent on 2 July 2015. The offence of causing harm by posting digital communication, the safe harbour provisions, and the amendments to...
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Is New Zealand the Libel World’s most plaintiff friendly jurisdiction? – Ali...
New Zealand defamation law strikingly favours plaintiffs. Sure, the Thai monarchy could be said to enjoy a certain degree of power, in view of the 25-year prison sentence imposed earlier this year on...
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Case Law, New Zealand: CPA Australia Limited v The New Zealand Institute of...
The Wellington High Court trial between New Zealand’s two professional accounting bodies has ended in victory – albeit somewhat pyrrhic – for the defendant. In a 61 page judgment in CPA Australia v...
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Case Law, New Zealand: Wishart v Murray, Social media libel, Justice...
In Wishart v Murray and ors ([2015] NZHC 3363) – the latest instalment of New Zealand’s leading case on social-media liability, now entering its fourth calendar year of interlocutory skirmishing –...
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New Zealand Defamation Law: 2016 in review – Ali Romanos
New Zealand courts heard several trials and important interlocutory battles in 2016. Political defamation cases were a feature. The most prominent case was that brought by Taxpayers’ Union director...
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New Zealand defamation law: half-year update – Ali Romanos
As New Zealand enters (what we’ll call) the Chilly Winter Term, it is timely to observe some important judgments released recently. Developments have mainly favoured defendants. Jameel developments...
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Google “Thumbs its Nose” at New Zealand’s Courts: Kiwis Should Look to Canada...
Google is at it again. According to press reports in the New Zealand Herald, Google refused to comply with a New Zealand court order to suppress details and remove content related to a local murder...
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Justice for Grace Millane: a new Commonwealth contempt framework? – Erica...
The New Zealand Minister of Justice, Andrew Little, has called for an international judicial contempt framework to be agreed between NZ, the UK, Australia and Canada in an effort to address the...
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Monthly International Round Up – Suneet Sharma
This is the tenth instalment in a regular series from Inforrm highlighting press and case reports of new media and information cases from around the world. It is intended to complement our United...
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Monthly International Round Up – Suneet Sharma
This is the sixteenth instalment in a regular series from Inforrm highlighting press and case reports of new media and information cases from around the world. It is intended to complement our United...
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